Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting

Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
Developer(s)	Capcom
Publisher(s)	Capcom
Producer(s)	Yoshiki Okamoto
Designer(s)	Akira Nishitani Akira Yasuda
Composer(s)	Yoko Shimomura Isao Abe
Series	Street Fighter
Platform(s)	Arcade Arcade, Super NES, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Xbox, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360
Release	December 1992 Arcade WW: December 1992 Super NES JP: July 11, 1993 WW: August 1993 Wii Virtual Console JP: August 10, 2007 NA: June 25, 2007 PAL: July 20, 2007 Wii U Virtual Console JP: June 25, 2014 WW: August 22, 2013 Xbox Live Arcade NA: August 2, 2006 EU: August 2, 2006
Genre(s)	Fighting
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer
Cabinet	Upright
Arcade system	CP System
CPU	68000 @ 12 MHz, Z80 @ 3.579 MHz
Sound	YM2151 @ 3.579 MHz, MSM6295 @ 7.576 MHz
Display	Raster, horizontal orientation, 384×224 pixels, 60 Hz refresh rate, 4096 out of 65,536 colors

Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting^{[lower-alpha 1]} is a competitive fighting game released for the arcades by Capcom in 1992. It is the third game in the Street Fighter II sub-series of Street Fighter games following Street Fighter II: Champion Edition. Released less than a year after the previous installment, Hyper Fighting introduced a faster playing speed and new special moves for certain characters, as well as further refinement to the character balance.

Hyper Fighting is the final arcade game in the Street Fighter II series to use the original CP System hardware. It was distributed as an upgrade kit designed to be installed into Champion Edition printed circuit boards.^[1] The next game in the series, Super Street Fighter II, upgraded to the CP System II.

Gameplay

Chun-Li performs her Kikoken special move against Dhalsim.

Hyper Fighting features faster playing speed compared to Champion Edition. As a result, the inputs for special moves and combos requires more precise timing. The faster playing speed also allowed players to get into battle quicker, as well as to react quicker. All of the fighters, with the exception of Guile and the four Grand Masters, were each given at least one new special move. The new techniques are as follow:

• Ryu and Ken can now perform the Hurricane Kick in mid-air.
• E. Honda has an anti-aerial attack called the Sumo Smash or Super Sumo Splash (スーパー百貫落とし, Sūpa Hyakkan Otoshi).
• Blanka has a vertical version of his Rolling Attack in addition to the original horizontal version.
• Chun-Li now has a fireball technique known as the Kikōken (気功拳, "Spirit Cultivation Fist") and can perform the Spinning Bird Kick in mid-air.
• Zangief can perform the Hi-Speed Double Lariat or Turbo Spinning Clothesline, a quicker version of his standard Double Lariat - which exclusive to this version, grants him invulnerability to projectiles and all low attacks, e.g. sweep kicks.
• Dhalsim has the Yoga Teleport, which allows him to instantly transport himself in front or behind his opponent from a certain distance depending on the input used.

Each fighter also received a new default palette. The original palettes are now featured as alternate palettes for each character, replacing the ones that were in Champion Edition. The only character exempt to this change is M. Bison, who retains his original default palette, but still gets a different alternate palette.

Ports

Super NES

A port titled Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting was released for the Super Famicom on July 11, 1993 in Japan, and for the Super NES in August 1993 in North America and October 1993 in the PAL region.^[2] The port was developed using the SNES port of the original Street Fighter II as its base, but with a larger cartridge size of 20 Megabits. Despite being titled Turbo, this port also contains the Champion Edition version of the game in the form of a "Normal" mode. The game's playing speed is adjustable in Turbo mode by up to four settings by default, with a cheat code that allows up to six faster settings. Other cheat codes allow players to enable and disable special moves in Versus mode, as well as play through the single-player mode with all of the special moves disabled.

The pitch change in the characters' voices when they perform a variation of their special moves based on the strength level of the attack was removed, but the voice clips of the announcer saying the names of each country were restored, along with the barrel-breaking bonus stage that was removed in the first SNES port. The graphics of each character's ending were changed to make them more accurate to the arcade version. Sound effects featuring people or animals shouting after a round ended were added as well, an aesthetic element that was not present in the arcade version of Hyper Fighting, but rather was added in Super Street Fighter II.

Other releases

The Sega Genesis version, Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition, while based primarily on Champion Edition, allows players to play the game with Hyper Fighting rules as well. The game's content is almost identical to the SNES version of Street Fighter II Turbo.

Hyper Fighting is included in Street Fighter Collection 2 (Capcom Generation 5) for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation. The PlayStation port was later included in Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 1 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox, as well as Capcom Classics Collection: Reloaded for the PlayStation Portable. A stand-alone re-release of Hyper Fighting was also released for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade which features an online versus mode. It was also released for the iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, and Android, along with Street Fighter II and Champion Edition, as part of Capcom Arcade.

Reception

Reception
Review scores Publication Score SNES Wii Xbox 360 1UP.com B+[3] AllGame [4] [5] [6] CVG 95%[7] 9 / 10[8] Edge 9 / 10[9] EGM 38 / 40[10] Eurogamer 9 / 10[11] 7 / 10[12] Famitsu 36 / 40[13] GameFan 389 / 400[14] GamePro 20 / 20[15] GamesMaster 96%[16] GameSpot 7.5 / 10[17] 6.7 / 10[18] GamesRadar [19] GameTrailers 8 / 10[20] ONM 97%[21] 85%[22] OXM (US) 9 / 10[23] OXM (UK) 9 / 10[8] Super Play 96%[2] Total! [24] Aggregate scores MobyRank 94%[25] NinRetro 93%[26]
Award Publication Award Gamest Awards (1993) 6th Best Game of 1993, 5th Best Fighting Game[27]

In the February 1994 issue of Gamest, Hyper Fighting, along with Super Street Fighter II, was nominated for Best Game of 1993, but lost to Samurai Spirits. Hyper Fighting was ranked as sixth, while placing fifth in the category of Best Fighting Games.^[27]

The game has sold 4.1 million copies on the SNES.^[28]

Notes

References

Further reading

• Studio Bent Stuff (Sep 2000). All About Capcom Head-to-Head Fighting Games 1987-2000. A.A. Game History Series (Vol. 1) (in Japanese). Dempa Publications, Inc. ISBN 4-88554-676-1. 

External links

• Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting at the Killer List of Videogames